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Remember Me?
written by Sophie Kinsella
Studio : RH Audio
by RH Audio
Release Date : 2008-02-26
Publisher : RH Audio
Released : 2008-02-26
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 5
EAN : 9780739342374
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 187 reviews)
List Price : $29.95
Our Price : $9.00
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Product Description |
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament….
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.
Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.
Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?
From the Hardcover edition. |
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Americancivilwar.com |
Behind The Book: A Note to Americancivilwar Readers from Author Sophie Kinsella It's hard, in hindsight, to say exactly how a book comes into being. There are so many ideas and themes that get explored and discarded along the way; so many layers that are built up. Plus it's a bit like having a baby—once the hard work is over it becomes a blur! But with all my novels, I usually start with one little kernel of an idea--and gradually build it up over months of thinking, plotting, the "coffee shop stage" as I call it. With Can you Keep A Secret? it was: what if you told someone all your secrets? With Remember Me? it was: what if you woke up and didn't recognize your life? What if you lost three years of memory--and everything had changed in that time? All my books involve some kind of wish-fulfilment; some kind of escapism--whether it's shopping, or a whirlwind romance, or stepping off the career treadmill--and Remember Me? is maybe the ultimate form of wish-fulfilment. What if you didn't recognize your life... because it had become so perfect? The image that kept coming to me was of a girl, blinking up at her Greek God of a husband, whom she doesn't recognize. It made me giggle every time I thought about it. And so I created my amnesiac heroine Lexi, and her perfect new glossy, unrecognizable life--from the new shiny teeth to the designer handbag, to the perfect millionaire husband. The potential for comedy was irresistible. Another theme I wanted to explore was identity, which I've always found fascinating. Our lives take unpredictable turns and we all change over time. But it's so gradual we don't always notice it. Would your younger self recognize your older self? Put another way, if you woke up tomorrow in the year 2011... what would you find? I grew incredibly close to Lexi whilst writing this book, and really felt all her ups and downs. I laughed and cried and cringed at every embarrassing moment (of which there are plenty!) I think of all my heroines she has maybe the biggest challenge to face and journey to make--as her biggest obstacle is herself. I hope you enjoy her journey!
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GREAT Read! |
I realize after reading this book how great of an author Sophie Kinsella is. I loved this book and was actually sad when I finished it. The characters are great, the story was wonderful and so much fun.
A MUST read!
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From S. Krishna's Books |
What happens if you wake up one morning and realize that all of your dreams have magically come true overnight? That's what happens to Lexi Smart. She wakes up in a hospital one to find that she doesn't recognize herself - literally. The frizzy hair is gone, replaced by a sleek, shiny mane, and the lifelong nickname "Snaggletooth" just doesn't apply anymore...and why do her lips look suspiciously plumper? She doesn't even believe the Louis Vuitton handbag that the nurse hands her is actually hers. Why? Because Lexi has no memory of the past three years. In her mind, she's a struggling assistant manager at a flooring company who just had a typical crazy night out with her girlfriends in 2004. In reality, she's actually a member of the Board of Directors of that flooring company and is waking up from a minor car accident in 2007.
Lexi finds that she has everything she has ever wanted: she is beautiful, married to a ridiculously good-looking guy, makes a lot of money, and lives in the most beautiful loft she has ever seen. So what if everyone at the office not-so-secretly wishes she hadn't recovered from the car accident? And so what if her oldest friends don't want anything to do with her anymore? And does it really matter if her new husband scolds her like a child for not putting her shoes away properly? Remember Me? is the tale of Lexi's quest to discover what happened to her during those three years to turn her into a person whom she doesn't physically or emotionally recognize, and what she does when she finds out that her new life may not be as picture perfect as it seems.
Remember Me? is funny, witty, and absolutely charming; it is perhaps Kinsella's best work yet. The characters are extremely well written and appealing. Like all of Kinsella's protagonists, Lexi is quirky and a bit off-center. What makes this book fresh and unique, however, is that when she wakes, Lexi is the woman that every chick lit heroine loves to hate: sleek and polished, beautiful, refined, and very unpleasant in the workplace. It's interesting to see what Kinsella does with that role reversal, how the reader sympathizes with the snooty boss in charge instead of condemning her. The most interesting parts of the book come when Lexi is trying to discover what drove her to this complete personality change. She looks at what her husband and friends demonstrate that her life has become and searches for some fragment of the Lexi she knows within it.
Ironically, it is not with her husband that Lexi finds remnants of the woman she used to be, but with his architect partner, Jon. Jon delivers startling news to her soon after their first meeting and, unsure of whether to trust him, she holds him at arm's length while trying to decipher the puzzle of the last three years.
Remember Me? is a fresh look at what might happen if that fairy-tale wish comes true: "I wish I could wake up to find a new me, someone completely different than I am now." Its hilarious situations and witty humor make it a real force to be reckoned with in the chick-lit genre. The fact that it comes with some definite introspection makes it that much better. It is an absolutely enjoyable experience; readers will race through the pages to find out what happens to Lexi as they try to discover the secrets of her past together. Kinsella has really outdone herself with this work. Any fan of chick lit should pick this up immediately.
Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book |
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One major problem... |
Honestly, when I'm reading fiction, I only judge a book by how entertaining it is. I'm fairly educated, but unless I'm reading the classics, or at least higher-brow fiction like John Irving or Wally Lamb, I don't rip a book apart based on story structure, continuity, believablity, or even character development. I know they're important, but I don't really care. There have been times I've loved books that had no strengths in these areas, and books I've hated that have had all of them. SOmetimes, I don't even know why I dislike them--even if the plot appeals to me, I either get into a book or I don't, and I can't put my finger on why.
So, I'm not even going to get into Kinsella's habit of creating one dimensional characters, or their unbelievability, or that they weren't given their full potential. Her books are entertaining as hell, and that's all I care about.
Remember Me? wasn't as good as her others. I've already re-read it, it's not awful, but it just fell a little flat--maybe as one of those "Gotta meet my deadline when I have so many better things to do" books. Everyone that has a favorite author has had to deal with one of these--when the author's heart just isn't in it. I think that's what happened here. Lexi wasn't the type of character I could be invested in--I'd love to hang out with Becky Bloomwood and Emma Corrington, even have afew drinks with Samantha Sweeting. Lexi just seemed weak and depressed, and the famous Kinsella humor failed to inject her with any warmth.
My main issues--
For one thing, I --SPOILER ALERT--wish her memory had returned.
I NEVER understood the whole marriage thing. I know she --SPOILER ALERT--struggled with her father screwing her family financially, but she was obviously successful in her own right, why marry a guy that prints invoices for his own wife? How could she have stomached the Monte Blanc in the first place?
And, my main problem--why the infedility in the first place? They never explained it. Okay, the sunflowers showed they had obviously been at it quite awhile, and the fact that Lexi was her "real self" over there shows she never drank the Kool-Aid. She obviously didn't love her husband--why wait so long to leave him? It didn't make sense. |
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A disappointed Sophie Kinsella fan...small spoiler |
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I LOVE Sophie Kinsella...but I was very disappointed with this book. Not as unique in voice as her other books, plus the whole book's "romance" was based on an affair. |
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Where's Jennifer Garner? |
Lexi wakes up from a conk on the head to find that three years have gone by -- and disappeared from her memory. Her sketchy boyfriend, Loser Dave, has been replaced by a gorgeous, rich (and quite stuffy) husband, Eric. Her best gal pals have become virtual strangers, and her hair has somehow become a gorgeous main, all the better to highlight her newly straightened teeth and collagened lips.
The only problem? Her new life doesn't quite fit the old Lexi. She wants things as they were, and is going to do her best to get them back.
Of all Kinsella's book, this is my least favorite. It has some of her traditional standbys -- a slightly goofy yet loveable main character, kooky minor characters, and a totally unbelievable yet charming premise.
The problem is, I felt like I was reading a bad novelized version of "Thirteen Going on Thirty." And the movie was much better than this book.
It isn't a BAD book. It was just a little boring in spots, and not nearly as cute as the movie. Go with Jennifer Garner instead. |
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